Primary
These are the services that we currently offer, but please talk to us about the specific needs and challenges for your school.
To find out more or book a no-obligation meeting about your schools needs, contact Surrey Arts.
Working alongside our advisory group of primary music teachers we have put together a document to help you evaluate the music curriculum at your school.
Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET) includes First Access and Tuning Up for KS1 & KS2.
A fun way for children aged 3-7 to learn stringed instruments.
In venues across Surrey. Support including visits from our conductor/workshop leader and resources.
A low-cost online subscription that brings the award-winning Singing Playgrounds programme to your school. Get your whole school singing! Schools registering April 2021 get a year subscription for £50.
Singing Picnics are new events that bring schools together for singing games and song sharing at open air venues across the county.
The Primary Singing Toolkit
The Primary Singing Toolkit is a free digital resource for primary music teachers, by the ISM Trust, in partnership with the Voices Foundation and supported by the Schools Music Association (SMA). Discover inspirational and practical singing strategies to enhance your music curriculum, and feel empowered to share the joy of singing with your students.
Surrey Primary Music Skill Swap
In recent months we have had requests from teachers and from our Primary Music Advisory Group to help facilitate networking and skill sharing between teachers in their localities.
In order to help this take place we have set up the Surrey Primary Music Skill Swap.
This is a simple, but open-ended survey form which you can complete on line. You can use it to note any specific music expertise or experience that you might be willing to share, as well as outlining knowledge you would be interested in finding out more about. You can also indicate if you would like to join another teacher for general reflection / co-observation etc.
Completing the survey should only take a few minutes. We hope to share the results of the survey with all participating teachers early in the New Year. We hope this new tool will help to build up strong links between school music leaders and enable you to build and share skills more effectively.
And more
- BBC Ten Pieces: An exciting initiative for schools, led by BBC Learning and the BBC Performing Groups that aims to open up the world of classical music to a generation of children and inspire them to develop their own creative responses to ten pieces of music.
- Singing/vocal programmes: Singing and vocal programmes including teacher training and a virtual learning environment for music
- One-to-one or small group music tuition: Music tutors in a range of instruments and genres for one-to-one or small group tuition, paid for by parents.
- Virtual learning environment: This is being developed to provide further online resources to enhance Surrey Arts Interactive, already provided by our digital partner, Charanga.
- CPD for your non-music specialist and music specialist teachers: Support to help teachers deliver the music curriculum and enhance learning including a specialist advice and support team to help music and non-music teachers in primaries and special schools to deliver the curriculum and more.
- Demonstrations and workshops: Hands on and interactive demonstrations of instruments for school assemblies or smaller groups
- Low-cost instrument hire
- Bespoke music projects and opportunities: Support to help you achieve your musical and non-musical goals for your pupils.